Record ID: CORN-F13F72
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy sword blade, rectangular in plan and profile and lozenge-shaped in section. Both cutting edges are worn and incomplete and the perpendicular edges to these are broken so that the original length of the blade is unknown as well as the position of this fragment along it, though it is at the end that tapers towards the tip, as any raised area has flattened out in section. The smooth dark green patina survives better on one face of the blade than the other, which has an uneven surface of raised areas of corrosion product. The lozenge-shaped section of the…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 1st May 2012
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Record ID: CORN-F0C156
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy rim fragment from a large bowl or cooking vessel with an internally bevelled rim that is semi-circular in section and flush with the upper edge of the vessel. The body of the vessel curves downwards slightly to suggest a reasonably deep straight-sided bowl or a deep straight-sided everted rim, as seen on cauldrons, and the curvature of the rim suggests a large diameter of about 320 mm. The bevelled rim itself is 4.7 mm thick which then tapers to the body which is 4 mm thick. Egan (2005) illustrates a similar example of a bowl fragment with a flared rim and straight…
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2012
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Record ID: CORN-EBBDA2
Object type: CAULDRON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy receptacle leg, probably from a small cauldron or skillet, triangular in plan, profile and section, with a large central mid-rib, flanked by a slightly narrower rib either side, and tapering from the triangular fragment of the body of the vessel at its upper end, to a pointed end at its foot. The back of the leg is flat and the end of the foot is worn, particularly on one side from use wear, so that it looks deliberately narrowed or pinched. Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 96, no.596, which is dated from the 13th to the 17th century. Butler & …
Created on: Monday 30th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
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Record ID: CORN-91F4F7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper as of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, c.AD 139-180, [TR POT VI (according to the position of HONOS)] COS II on reverse so c.AD 151-2, RIC 1306, BMC 1918
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-7F10E5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Brass sestertius of a Roman emperor of the 2nd century AD, as it is reasonably square, suggesting it was made out of a strip, but too worn and incomplete to identify.
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-5CBF05
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy spectacle or double-loop buckle frame with bevelled inside edge and flat back so that it is semi-circular in section. The pin bar is also bevelled on both sides and therefore narrowed, but it is flush with the frame with a recessed groove at either end where it meets the frame. The frame is decorated with oblique lines which change angle as they move around each loop, creating a rope effect. The pin is missing but the original surface remains, although with some scratches and corrosion. Whithead (1996) illustrates similar spectacle buckles with oblique engraved lin…
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-F3AE48
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy spur with only one terminal remaining, the other side having been broken in antiquity. The sides of the spur have been bent outwards and the terminal has been bent back towards the side that it would have originally been in line with. The terminal is an enclosed sub-rectangle in profile and this type is often found paired with a circular terminal on the other side in Medieval examples, such as on iron prick spurs; but the style of the moulded neck and rowel box suggests that this spur dates from the Post-medieval period and so there would probably have bee…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-D56A12
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver threepence of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Third Issue (1561-1577), dated to 1568 on reverse, confirmed by mintmark of coronet, North 1998, Spink 2566.
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-D539B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver 4 sols of Louis XIV of France (1643-1715), minted at Lyon and dated on reverse to 1676. Obverse: IVDOVICVS XIIII D GRA; draped bust with annulet curls facing right Reverse: FRAN ET NAVARRE REX 1676; Crown above fleur-de-lis cross, D within. Krause & Mishler 2003 (17th century, 3rd edition), p. 218, No.KM 232.2.
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 18th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-CA4A22
Object type: JEWS HARP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy jews harp, with bevelled edges so that it is lozenge-shaped in section, which flattens out as the body extends into the tapering arms. At the apex of the loop there are two parallel grooves where the iron tongue would have been attached originally. This small lyre-shaped musical instrument was used by holding the frame between the teeth and striking the iron tongue with the fingers. They were used from the Medieval period right up to the 18th century, but the earlier ones are often forged iron, are decorated with punchwork or engraving, have 'barleytwist' loops, and …
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-CA14C1
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy button, circular in plan and flat in profile, with a central circular setting which contains a blue glass stone. The stone has since been chipped so that it almost looks hexagonal, but was originally more facetted. The upper face of the button also appears to have a pattern of cross-hatching involving groups of five parallel lines at right angles to each other and overlapping to look like textile, but most of the original surface has corroded away. The back of the button has an oval attachment loop, now 5mm in length, which was probably originally circular but has si…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C98581
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy dress hook fastener with the hook end having been bent straight and the loop end broken and missing. Two pointed projections are all that remain of the base of the attachment loop. The body of the fastener is circular in plan and domed in profile with a larger central raised pellet and six smaller pellets around it, representing a six-petalled flower, with six larger pellets alternating with these, as the larger petals, all within a border of smaller pellets. Bailey (1992) illustrates a similar example on page 30, No.12, which is dated from the 16th cent…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C93882
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy buckle pin with a drilled circular hole for the bar and an incised groove on both sides just below the loop where the pin then narrows and is recessed and tapers to a flattened point. Whitehead (1996) illustrates a similar incised and recessed pin on a shoe buckle on page 101, no.649, which is dated from c.1690-1720. Read (1988) illustrates a similar incised pin on a shoe buckle on page 174, No.1150, which is dated from c.1720-1790.
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2013
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Record ID: CORN-C8C480
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sheet copper alloy mount or escutcheon plate in the form a flower with a central raised roundel and four trefoil petals in a cross formation. One of the central petals in one of the four groups has broken away so that it is flush with the other two petals either side. This broken edge may have originally been extended to form an arm of a handle for a drawer or as a decorative mount on an item of furniture. The back of the mount has an open circular hole, which is about 6 mm in diameter, where the mount has been punched from behind to form the central roundel on the front. It does not …
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-C85006
Object type: DOOR FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy, likely brass, knob terminal from a door or drawer handle, circular in plan and semi-circular in profile. The fitting is in the form of a daisy with a central raised dome. The dome is defined and bordered by two concentric rings which are surrounded by twelve petals that form the flower. The back of the fitting has a raised circular setting with a central hole, about 5 mm in diameter, which has several ridges to take the securing bolt, now missing, that would have fixed the knob to the door or drawer. Bailey (1993) illustrates similar examples on page 20, Nos.47 & …
Created on: Monday 16th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-7B70B5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold half noble of Edward III (1327-1377), Treaty Series (1363-1369), Standard Type B with double saltire stops, London mint with 'E' in centre of reverse, saltire before EDWARD on obverse, North 1238, Spink 1506.
Created on: Friday 13th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-60A125
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver denarius of Hadrian (AD 117-138), [HADRIANVS] AVG COS III P P which dates the coin to c.AD 134-138 within his reign, but the reverse is worn and the original surface missing, so it cannot be defined, apart from a central figure standing right with a tall structure to the right, perhaps a parazonium, or perhaps another figure but they are too close together for ADVENTVS AVG type.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-605D94
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver denarius of Faustina the Elder (AD 138-141), DIVA FAVSTINA so minted in Rome after her death in AD 141 and later in the reign of her husband, Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), AVGVSTA type of Vesta holding what appears to be palladium in outstretched right hand, RIC 369, BMC 439.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-604237
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Republican denarius with only four letters left on the obverse NIVS and a bare head facing right with curly hair and no beard and a defined angular mark at the base of the neck. So perhaps it is a denarius with the head and legend of Marcus Antonius, or Mark Antony (83-30 BC), but must date from at least the time of the Second Triumvirate with Octavian, established in 43 BC. The closest parallels that the recorder can find are on coins from the east, c.32-31 BC, with small lettering behind the head, and the best example of these is illustrated in BMC, Republic III (1970) on Pla…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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Record ID: CORN-602680
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Republican denarius with most of the original surface now missing, and some corrosion product which appears as raised pellets and curved lines which suggest that the surface may have been exposed to some heat in the past. The coin is too worn to be able to identify it within this period and likely dates from c.211-27 BC.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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